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STAPLE 0R; FASTENER. No. 249,851. Patented Nov. 22,1881.

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NITE STATES PATENT Grrrce.

-GE( )BGE WV. MGGILL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

STAPLE 0R TAG FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 249,851, dated November22, 1881.

' Application filed September 27, 1881. (NomodclJ To all whom t't mayconcern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. MoGrLL, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York city, in the county of New York and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inStaple-Fasteners or 'Tag-Fastenings; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact descrip' tion of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

The object of this invention is to produce a cheap fastener for bindingand ticketing silks, cloths, and other-fibrous material, the shanks ofwhich, in passing through the material, will not cut the fibers of thesame, but merely push them aside.

It consists of a piece of flexible round wire, of suitable length andthickness, pointed at both ends, with its center portion inclosed in ametal casing or tube to give it rigidity, and its ends or uncoveredparts bent down at right angles from its covered center to form itspene- (rating-shanks.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents the round and pointed flexible-wireblank. Fig. 2 represents, in blank, the center stiffening-tube. Fig. 3represents the wire bent into shape, its center inclosed in the stifiening-tube. Fig. 4 represents a ticket or tag which the fastener isdesigned to attach to cloth,'&c. Fig. 5 is a top View of the fastenerattaching a ticket to Fig. 6 is a cross-section of Fig. 5, showing theshanks of the fastener run through the ticket and the cloth andbentaparton thebottom side of the cloth,binding them all together. Fig.7 represents the wire head of the staple extended on one side in theform of a loop or ring, adapting the staple to hang or suspend upon a'hook or nail the articles bound by it, or to be'ticd to a mark ing-tagby a string, as shown in Fig. 10. Fig. 8 represents the blank of thestiffening-tube provided with a center opening to be used on a staplewith a looped head. In constructing the staple in this form the loop isformed in the center of the wire, and the ends of the wire are runthrough the center hole in the tubeblank and bent apart and thetube-blank folded around them, and their uncovered ends or shanks bentdown at right angles from their covered center or the blank of thecenter tube may be nicked or cut out at each side, as shown at Fig. 9,and folded around the staple-head,.

after the same has been bent into form, so that the neck of the loopwill occupy the nicks or slots in the split side of the tube. Fig. 10represents the staple having its head looped and tnbed and a tag tied inits loop. Fig. 11 represents the staple-wire blank struck flat in itscenter. Fig. 12 represents the blank so struck bent into staple form andFig. 13 represents a staple with its head so flattened, having itsflathead inclosed in a correspondingly-shaped tube to increase itsstiffness and width.

The head of the staple may he made to project longitudinally beyond itsshanks by making its center tube longer than the head formed by thefolding of the wire, and providing the tube with two holes for thereception of the shanks of the staple, as shown in-Fig. 14, and pinchingthe. projecting ends of the tube, after the same has been closed on itshead, as shown in Fig. 15.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. A double-pronged fastener or pinmade of a single piece of flexible wire pointed at both ends, having itscenter portion inclosed in a metal tube and its ends bent down at rightan- In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

GEORGE \V. M OGILL.

Witnesses:

HENRY Soo'rr, W. R. Not.

for the purposes herein set forth and described.

